2023 January 23

• all pdf are linked to google drive and videos are embedded.

2023 January 20

• updated list of QUBIC publications
• General site updates including the CV and fixing some of the broken links. The landing page no longer shows recent changes.

2021 May 27

• page for QUBIC

2021 May 26

• finally updated my list of publications!
• corrected github repository for qubicpack (changed from pystudio)
• replaced ResearchGate with OrcID

2018 December 26

• updated link to support Slackware

2018 January 8

• “Observation of the 2_1,1-2_1,2 transition of methanol at 2502.8 MHz in Sgr B2” published in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
• contribution to the SKA France White Book: SKADS and PrepSKA
• contribution to the SKA France White Book: EMBRACE
• contribution to the SKA France White Book: BAO with Intensity Mapping

2017 August 17

• new page with a list of software development projects.

2017 August 14

• EMBRACE page: home menu item and link to paper.

2017 August 8

• update about satorchi. I am now at APC.

2017 May 25

• Statement of Teaching Philosophy

2017 May 11

• updated career history. I am now at APC!
• updated contact info. I am now at APC!

2017 March 10

• lecture on radio astronomy, dark energy and dark matter at IUT Bourges.

2017 January 12

• published on arXiv the final version of the proposal for MANTIS: The Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Transient and Intensity-Mapping System.
• presentation for the Conseil stratégique de direction de Nançay, 30 November 2016, where I gave a brief overview of my projects at Nançay

2016 November 23

• presentation at the PAON-4 meeting, 16 November 2016, “Satellite Observations with EMBRACE”

2016 November 7

• new section on Research with links to published papers and documents
• presented Square Kilometre Array, Mid Frequency Aperture Array at the APC Cosmology Group meeting, 7 November 2016

2016 October 18

• presented SKA Precursors and Pathfinders at the INFIERI 8th Workshop, Fermilab 17 October 2016

2016 October 7

• added the proposal for MANTIS: The Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Transient and Intensity-Mapping System.

2016 October 6

• published the SKA Aperture Array Mid Frequency Science Requirements.

2016 August 22

• added a new introduction to SKA aperture array technology.

2016 June 3

• added a full list of my publications with links to the PDF files.
• publication list also accessible from the SKA pages..
• publication list also accessible from the Odin pages..
• publication list also accessible from the Herschel/HIFI pages..

2016 May 29

• added SKADS publication in the Goutelas Summer School proceedings from 2011
• added SKADS Deliverable: EMBRACE Test report from 2010
• added SKADS Deliverable: EMBRACE Test plan from 2008
• added Odin telescope test report from the measurements at CESR Toulouse in 2000
• added Odin radiometer software help from 1999

2016 May 19

• embedded media with link to youtube for France 3 broadcast 4 February 2011
• embedded media with link to youtube for IDFM98 interview 18 August 2010
• embedded media with link to youtube for CSIRO interview March 2004
• embedded media with link to youtube for CBC broadcast 3 May 2003
• embedded media with link to youtube for Zone Science broadcast 16 February 2003
• embedded media with link to youtube for CBC Radio-Canada broadcast 11 August 2002

2016 May 18

• fixed broken link to an old SKADS presentation
• added publications to the quick links
• yet another EMBRACE presentation, this time on the importance of maintaining EMBRACE operations

2016 April 21

• added DOI links to my publications page

2016 April 18

• fixed some broken links on my SKA presentations page

2016 April 17

• updated list of radio astronomy software

2016 April 16

• “Characterization of a dense aperture array for radio astronomy” published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 589, A77 (2016)
• my SKA presentations since June 2015: Nançay, Paris, Pisa, Penticton, Nice, Cape Town

2016 March 23

• fixed broken link for IDL on the astronomy software page

2015 June 6

• EMBRACE@Nançay presentation at SF2A, Toulouse

2015 May 12

• EMBRACE/SKA presentations in Bordeaux, Aveiro, and CERN (4 presentations)
• EMBRACE publication in the proceedings of the INFIERI Summer School

2015 March 10

• EMBRACE publication at IEEE Antennas & Propagation symposium, Vancouver 2015
• added new member button for Free Software Foundation

2015 February 18

• added EMBRACE publication in ANTEM 2014
• added RFI Mitigation publication including results from EMBRACE in URSI Paris 2013
• added a link to my ResearchGate profile on the main page.

2015 January 20

• fixed broken link to Slackware subscription on the software acknowledgements page.
• updated link to the Nançay directory on the contact page.

2015 January 19

• Saint Augustin et le Big Bang published in the Bulletin Interne de l’Observatoire de Paris, September 2014
• French SKA White Paper (draft of July 2014)

2014 December 18

• CNRS/INSU Roadmap for Astronomy, October 2014
• NenuFAR Instrument Description and Science Case, October 2014
• corrected the name of the artist for the Nançay comic book

2014 November 19

• fixed a broken link in the personal info page

2014 August 29

• “SKA Mid Frequency Aperture Arrays: Technology for the Ultimate Survey Machine” published at the URSI General Assembly, 16-23 August 2014

2014 July 28

• EMBRACE Pathfinder for SKA presented at the 2nd Summer School on INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry, Paris, 25 July 2014

2014 July 11

• EMBRACE Pathfinder for SKA presented at the Paris 21cm Intensity Mapping Workshop, 4 June 2014

2014 April 2

• Dense Aperture Array for SKA - EMBRACE presented at the AAMID “All Hands” meeting, Dwingeloo, 2 April 2014

2014 February 18

• NenuFAR as a SKA Pathfinder presented at the NenuFAR workshop, Paris, 14 February 2014
• presentation on Dense Aperture Array for SKA including EMBRACE results at Radio Days, Paris, 11 February 2014

2014 January 28

• presentation on SKA and EMBRACE to the staff of the visitor centre at Nançay

2014 January 23

• added a missing paper to the publications list: R&D at Nançay.

2013 November 20

• added public talk “Energie Sombre” at Pôle des Etoiles, Nançay 7 June 2013

2013 November 19

• Characterization and Initial Results with EMBRACE, published in Proceedings of the French Astronomy & Astrophysics Society
• added 7 EMBRACE/SKA presentations in 2013

2013 April 13

• added a link to my Project Scientist Manifesto in the SKADS intro page.
• added a Plea for the Advanced Instrumentation Program which was first sent as a letter in February 2012.
• added my Project Scientist Manifesto which was submitted in May 2012.
• modified “jump to” menu: added EMBRACE, and removed some older stuff
• updated my list of presentations with the EMBRACE poster presented at “Modern Radio Universe” in Bonn, 22-26 April 2013, and the SKA presentation at the AERES review committee January 2013
• added the SKADS White Paper which was published as SKA Memo #122 in 2011

2012 December 12

• updated my list of presentations with three SKA presentations in Oct/Nov, including a presentation of EMBRACE results

2012 November 7

• I appeared in a French bande déssinée on 9 October 2012

2012 October 12

• I gave a presentation on Research and Development for SKA in France in Cape Town on 25 September 2012
• I gave a public SKA Dark Energy talk at Nançay on 16 September 2012

2012 September 7

• I was interviewed on Radio Europe1 on 29 August 2012

2012 June 20

• I stepped down after the end of my two year mandate as assistant director at Nançay

2012 June 6

• I gave two presentations at the France National Astronomy Meeting, Nice, 6 June 2012

2012 May 5

• updated the link to DEAP on the astronomy software page, but the DEAP project is definitely no longer being developped.

2012 April 30

• added the publication on the EMBRACE Monitoring and Control software which was presented at ADASS XXI in Paris, November 2011

2012 April 27

• a picture of 64 tiles at EMBRACE@Nançay taken on 3 August 2011

2012 April 25

• a slightly updated version of FITSplode which will compile on more recent systems

2012 March 12

• added yet another brief introduction to SKA, this one from the article I published in 2010
• added a brief introduction to SKA from a presentation I gave in 2008
• I published another EMBRACE article in Microscoop Magazine of the CNRS, February 2012

2012 March 10

• updated my list of SKA presentations, from 2010 onwards, including 8 during the year 2011, and several more from the beginning of 2012.
• added the beamformer paper to the list of publications.

2012 March 7

• I published a popular article on EMBRACE at Nançay, January 2012.
• article on international projects at Nançay, July 2011.
• article on the balloon experiment for cosmic rays at Nançay, June 2011.
• after an enormously long hiatus, finally here are some updates to my webpages! beginning with a bunch of appearances in various public media.

2011 March 1

• added the feature article in the Berry Républicain newspaper, 18 May 2010.

2011 February 18

• I was interviewed for a feature article in the Berry Républicain newspaper, 11 February 2011.

2011 February 17

• I was one of three guests on a special LOFAR television interview on France 3.

2011 January 27

• radio astronomy highlights from 1800 to 2007 (a personal selection)
• fixed link to Sun Kwok in the Odin Chronicles page.

2011 January 24

• fixed broken links on the Chalmers page for Onsala and GARD.
• new introduction to the Square Kilometre Array
• updated the SKADS introduction page with a comment about my role as Project Scientist.
• corrected the introduction to EMBRACE for the area of the arrays in Nançay and Westerbork

2011 January 20

• new image of the Nançay Radio Telescope taken from halfway up the movable mirror
• new message form with request to give email address if you want a reply
• new page for the interview on CBC Radio “All in a Weekend” hosted by Yvan Huneault
• new page for the radio program CBC Radio Canada « Les Années Lumière » featuring MOST
• new page for the television show Zone Science featuring MOST
• television interview for ALFA from March 2004
• labeled ALFA images by Pat Sykes from March 2004

2010 September 1

• pictures of 56 tiles installed at EMBRACE@Nançay, 2010 August 17 and 31, including the return of Henrik Olofsson.

2010 August 28

• removed my portrait and text from the front page, and it displays the four most recent changes.
• updated media page with one hour radio documentary on IDFM98 Radio Enghien, 18 August 2010
• picture of Philippe Picard surrounded by EMBRACE tiles, 22 July 2010
• new “about” page explaining the origins of satorchi.net
• added acknowledgement to RSS and removed XEmacs (I’ve been using GNU Emacs since 2010)

2010 July 29

• testing FAN in the focal area of the Nançay Radio Telescope, July 2010
• adding tiles to EMBRACE at Nançay July 2010

2010 July 19

• Control & downconversion cards arrive at Nançay June/July 2010

2010 June 21

• added a google map of Nançay.

2010 June 3

• A look at fallen trees near EMBRACE at Nançay, a couple of months after the wind storm Xynthia.
• pictures of 33 EMBRACE tiles installed at Nançay, during a visit by Cyril Tasse et Ann Poncelet, 2010 April 21.

2010 May 31

• pictures of 25 EMBRACE tiles installed at Nançay, during a visit by Albert-Jan Boonstra, 2010 April 13-14.
• picture of the Nançay Radioheliograph and CODALEMA, 2010 April 21.
• new format for slide shows with improved navigator buttons, and a rolled-up side menu.

2010 May 28

• reorganised old pictures of Nançay into sections on each of the instruments.

2010 May 27

• views of the Nançay Decimetric Radio Telescope from above.
• views of the Nançay Radio Heliograph from above.

2010 May 20

• résumé de carrière en français.

2010 May 11

• as of 12 april 2010, I am an assistant director at Nançay.
• the new colours on the Nançay pages match the official Nançay website.
• new implementation of the «jump to» menu

2010 March 28

• picture of LOFAR@Nançay.

2010 March 20

• pictures of EMBRACE modifications at Nançay, 2-3 March 2010.
• pictures of the Focal Array for Nançay project, 3 March 2010.
• pictures of the Nançay Radio Heliograph, 11 February 2010.

2010 March 19

• overview photo of Nançay in the snow, 11 February 2010.
• photos of Snow on LOFAR at Nançay, 11 Feb 2010, during the visit by Henrik Olofsson.

2010 March 18

• photos of LOFAR at Nançay, 1 March 2010, during the LOFAR Super Station meeting.
• photos of 16 EMBRACE tiles at Nançay., during the visit by Henrik Olofsson.

2010 March 8

• listed three new SKADS publications which appear in Proceedings of Wide Field Science & Technology for the SKA, and the whole proceedings, edited by S.A. Torchinsky et al. are available for downloads.
• photos from the 8th SKADS Board meeting, 3-4 November 2009
• links to launch & operations of Herschel/Planck

2010 January 26

• photos of four EMBRACE tiles at Nançay

2010 January 7

• renamed the list of spectral line software to the more general radio astronomy data reduction software
• reorganised radio astronomy page

2010 January 2

• add list of my SKADS presentations
• cosmetic changes to layout

2009 December 31

• updated contact information, now that SKADS is finished.
• added photos of the EMBRACE components at Nançay, 26 November 2009
• the last two recent changes are shown on the front page

2009 November 29

• updated my career history with the fact that I am now a research engineer at Nançay
• updated my career history with a link to my PhD supervisors John Peacock and Walter Gear
• updated my career history with a link to my B.Mech.Eng supervisor A.K. Misra

2009 November 27

• Scilab added to the list of radio astronomy software.
• MeqTrees added to the list of radio astronomy software.
• astLib added to the list of radio astronomy software.
• Mathematica added to the list of radio astronomy software.
• the ADASS conference series added to the list of radio astronomy software.

2009 November 20

• pictures from the final SKADS Conference

2009 November 13

• OBIT added to list of astronomy software

2009 October 16

• SKA Memo 111 listed on my SKADS publications

2009 August 31

• listed my interview on Radio Hôp’, 6 May 2009

2009 August 22

• photos of Miyun radio observatory, China, 31 July 2009
• SKADS Newsletter Special IAU Edition, July 2009
• fixed broken links to Victor and ESA in the 1997 optics proposal for HIFI
• cosmetic changes (centred, framed, external url’s as on wikipedia)

2009 July 8

• The new EMBRACE radome at Nançay.

2009 June 9

• updated link to Free Software Foundation.

2009 June 1

• photos of EMBRACE at Nancay.

2009 May 20

• SKADS newsletter #5.

2009 May 5

• updated link to Kevin Volk on the Odin pages.
• updated link to Sun Kwok on the Odin pages.

2009 April 23

• fitsplode bug fix.

2009 April 22

• added my spectral line FITS extractor: fitsplode.
• added fitsplode on the list of spectral line software.
• added SPLAT on the list of spectral line software.
• removed old pictures of from the photo album.

2008 December 11

• added pictures of the EMBRACE radome and platform taken on 11 December 2008.
• added pictures of the Dwingeloo 25m radio telescope.
• added pictures from the SKADS workshop in Lisbon 2-3 October 2008.
• added the SKADS Newsletter #4, published in November 2008.

2008 September 24

• added pictures during observing at the Effelsberg 100m Radio Telescope with Henrik Olofsson on 1-3 September 2008.
• added a note that my picture of EMBRACE was the ASTRON/JIVE daily image for 16 September 2008.

2008 September 9

• added a link to Myke in the caption of the kite-flying picture.

2008 August 22

• pictures of EMBRACE under test at ASTRON, 21 August 2008.

2008 August 18

• my submission regarding Mechanical Engineering and Astronomy.
• added a section with a list of web submissions on the popular media page.
• added a comment that the DEAP software project seems to be dead.
• added ASAP on the list of data reduction software.

2008 July 28

• added GNU Octave on the list of data reduction software.

2008 July 1

• added a link to Sun Kwok’s article on Protoplanetary Nebula at Scholarpedia.
• Here are variations on my name so that search engines will find me with common misspellings of my name.

2008 May 13

• photos from a visit to Dwingeloo, 7-8 May, 2008 where we saw the EMBRACE Prototype tile outside taking measurements of the sun.

2008 March/April

• cosmetic changes, and changes to error handling. The error handler attempts to find the page you really wanted, if you were using an outdated link.

2008 February 18

• added the URSI paper on SKADS in the SKADS publications page.

2008 February 12

• Six years of Odin monthly reports collected together giving the history of the development of the Odin radiometer: The Odin Chronicles

2008 January 11

• description of the Odin calibration optics, including the infamous erroneous sky beam directions.
• The introductory text has been updated to note that Odin operations stopped at the end of December 2007, because we ran out of money.

2007 December 31

• pictures of Westerbork
• RSS Feed for the changelog

2007 December 18

• new SKADS publications page
• “Révéler l’invisible” (PDF 1.8MB) : article which appeared in the July/September 2007 issue of Pour la Science
• also available in the Popular Media page
• updated links in Space Astronomy

2007 October 21

• photos from SKA Inter-Working Group meeting, Manchester 27-29 September, 2007
• 50th Anniversary of the Lovell Telescope
• also added to the Radio Astronomy section.
• and also to the ROE alumni page.
• photos from the SKADS Workshop in Paris, 10-12 October, 2007
• correction in the career history section. The SKADS contract runs to the end of June 2009 (not July).

2007 September 17

• Heather at Nançay
• link to Odin publications
• kite flying on Brunet Street
• page format selector

2007 September 7

• SKADS Newsletter #3
• added acknowledgement to Cascading Style Sheets in the software acknowledgement page.
• cosmetic changes

2007 August 28

• added CASA to the list of radio astronomy data reduction software

2007 August 22

• Pushchino Portraits
• updated link to SpecX in the list of radio astronomy data reduction software
• changed the top image on the Arecibo page

2007 August 21

• picture of S&V in Meudon

2007 August 16

• added GIPSY to the list of spectral line reduction software

2007 July 25

• added pictures of the Australia Telescope Compact Array

2007 July 24

• added pictures of the Submillimeter Array and the Mauna Kea observatories

2007 July 22

• added pictures of Parkes

2007 July 17

• added pictures from the Planck Optics meeting 2006

2007 July 15

• added pictures from Goutelas

2007 July 13

• added a quicklink drop down menu.

2007 July 11

• updated the media appearances page with the article in Dossier pour la science and the public talk given at Goutelas.
• expanded the career history pages.

2007 July 9

• updated some broken Odin links

2007 May/June/July

• various tweaks to the message web form which is under attack by spam robots.

2007 May 4

• added a picture of Bob & Kath

2007 May 2

• added SKADS photos

2007 April 25

• cosmetic changes: buttons on slide show navigator, and fixed the thumbnail page which didn‘t display properly in MSIE (doesn‘t understand the CSS border-spacing directive).

2007 April 17

• added GNU Data Language to the list of data reduction software

2007 April 16

• added a form to send me a message
• reorganised some menus, grouping together data reduction software topics

2007 April 10

• added PHP and Apache to the software acknowledgements.
• added links to Nançay Observatory in the Nançay section

2007 April 6

• added Nançay directorship candidacy

2007 April 4

• update time is given in UTC

2007 March 27

• fixed a broken link in the Quasi-Optics page.
• reduced the number of photos of the ALFA installation and day after installation.

2007 March 26

• added pictures of the visit to Arecibo by Reinhard Keller
• added more photos of Arecibo

2007 March 23

• added ImageMagick to the software acknowledgements
• added link to changelog in last-update info at the bottom of each page.
• menu and style in changelog follows the referring page (same as contact info).

2007 March 22

• fixed a bug in the changelog
• added pictures of the Rothney Observatory Open House 2002 May 18

2007 March 21

• added pictures of Arecibo at Night

2007 March 20

• added changelog
• reorganised menus: radio astronomy is grouped together
• added pictures of Nançay
• added SKADS Newsletters
• added photos of the Odin Meeting in Paris, March 2007

2007 January 21

• converted to PHP

2005 September to 2007 January

• various changes and additions including:
  • software acknowledgements
  • pictures
  • media appearances
  • SKADS
  • MOST

2005 September 12

• registered satorchi.net
• setup website from personal and project pages originally located at
  • Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology
    Odin
  • Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Calgary
    Odin, HIFI, Protoplanetary Nebula
  • Canadian Space Agency
    Planck, HIFI, Odin
  • Université de Montréal
    Canadian Astronomers Using Space Experiments
  • Arecibo Observatory
    ALFA, fiasco